I have just spotted something I had not noticed before - XPP 9.4.1 - if you open a job and display the division File Name and the Last Modified date it does what it is supposed to however if you add the from the View menu Display Page Counts (which is does perfectly) it also updates the Last Modified date and time. Can someone else check I am not going mad before I open a Christmas Support Ticket (and I was not just waiting for Barry to retire!).
Chris,
As you can see in the following screenshot, that does not happen on my system.
Even with the page count view on, the last modified of the divisions stay the same
Could it be that you are looking at 'old' jobs that come from an old release and have not been converted yet?
Because it could very well be that if you run a 'showpages' on a division which does not have the current release, it will start updating the divisions to bring them to the current release.
= modified them
= change the last modified date
(I am not completely sure that showpages does that, but somewhere my memory tells me that that is the case)
What is it like to be so intelligent Bart - I think you are right - I was looking at old jobs and therefore they must not have been converted. Thanks for explanation.
Yes. Indeed. Any XPP "database" program used to access a division will (attempt to) run a conversion if any part of the division (files) are not up to the latest rev.
If you think about it, that really has to be the case. Otherwise, all database programs would have to have built-in knowledge of every single past rev of all of the data structures in all of the different files.
Jonathan Dagresta
RWS Group/XPP Development
Is there a way to globally update jobs/divisions when you cut over to a new release?
We are preparing for XPP 9.4.1 update. We would like all the current divisions to get updated at the same time so we can avoid user confusion when they look at divisions that were in place prior to the upgrade.
That would be the cnv_tree program. You can find specific information about options to the program in the Command Line Utilities manual. This will update job and style data.
Thanks Sharon...I will check out the document.
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